Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the time of "Lo, the butter stinketh" criticism of Harvard food has not approached that existing today. Besides, petitions in the various Houses the complaint has taken the form of arguments with waitresses and roll fights. It seems obvious that the present system will not be tolerated by the student body for long. If the Dining Halls expect to solve their financial deficit by such means I am afraid they shall fail...
Canada, unlike Britain and the U.S., undertook to freeze both prices and wages at the Sept. 15-Oct. 11, 1941 level. Canada had tried temporary ceilings (wool, leather, bread, butter), but when it had to earmark half its national income for war, it decided to shoot the works. Its Wartime Prices and Trade Board has full licensing power (TIME, Dec. 1), by March 15 will have licensed every food & clothing retailer in Canada (some 200,000). But WPTB shares control over supplies with the War Industries Control Board, and has yet to ration anything but sugar...
...cold storage, from the squat, thick-walled ice houses of villages to the glistening refrigerator plants of big cities, are record stocks of vegetables, fruits, eggs, butter and cheese, frozen chickens, near-record stocks of beef, pork, slabs of lard. Stored in farmers' dirt-walled cellars, or in the basements of city groceries, is a profusion of potatoes, cabbages, onions, apples, turnips, rutabagas, yams...
...Wisconsin's dairy country, tank trucks lug thousands of gallons of milk in their stainless steel bellies, to plants where it is turned to butter and cheese, or condensed and powdered for storing. In Iowa, where more than 2,000,000 sows will farrow in the spring, farmers have begun to think about the hog shelters they will have to slap together, of boards in the shape of inverted Vs or lean-tos thrown against fence corners. Everywhere barns are piled high with hay, oats, alfalfa and corn to feed the new crop of pigs and calves...
...have not heard of the babassu nut since September 1936, when Alf Landon attacked this "jungle product" as an example of the riffraff being let into the country by Cordell Hull's reciprocal trade treaties. It grows in Brazil and its oil, used in margarine, competed with U.S. butter. Alf's "babassu speech" was a major milestone on his route to Kansas. But last week the babassu nut came into...